Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Five: Petty Officer William G. Jackson, Royal Navy, awarded the French Croix de Guerre for services as Director of a turret aboard H.M.S. Indomitable at the battle of Jutland
1914-15 Star (22813. W. G. Jackson, A.B., R.N.; British War and Victory Medals (228130 W. G. Jackson. L.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue; (228130 W. G. Jackson, P.O. H.M.S. Sandhurst); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze palm emblem on riband, mounted as worn, good very fine

Three: Private E. W. Jackson, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action in Tunisia in April 1943
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure (Pte. E. W. Jackson) and card box of issue addressed to Mrs J. Jackson, Dover House Road, Putney, good very fine (8) £300-£400

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 30 November 1917. Sold with original French certificate with citation for Jutland, dated ‘le 31 Mai 1917’.

Ernest William Jackson, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, was killed in action on 13 April 1943, aged 19. He was the son of William George Jackson, and of Jane Jackson, of Putney, London, and is buried in Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia.